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(Warning!Contains Highly Offensive Expletives Undeleted!) Via Instapundit But also sort of a happy day at The Washington Post, for the dwindling band of writers and editors there who value such old-fashioned traits as temperance in the expression of personal views; forthrightness; and fairness. The liberal blogger Dave Weigel, who was hired by The Post to cover the conservative movement, has resigned, after advising Matt Drudge on a semi-public forum for leftish commentators to set himself on fire. Put aside the controversy over whether the Post, which was advised by its star blogger, Ezra Klein (who once advised parties unknown, via...

VANITY Fair yesterday took some of the deepest staff cuts at Condé Nast, but Editor Graydon Carter didn't deliver the bad news himself. Although Carter was said to have been at his restaurant, The Monkey Bar, Wednesday night, he was a no show in the office yesterday because he had jetted off on a vacation yesterday morning. Vanity Fair's layoffs were said to be in the double-digit range, and hit as high as senior editors and as low as fact checkers, and were deep, in part, because Carter largely ignored the edict to chop 5 percent late last year. Additional...

FLASH: CBSNEWS HOPES TO MAKE PUBLIC ITS REPORT ON FAKE BUSH DOCS NEXT WEEK, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE. 'WE HAVE A TENTATIVE RELEASE DATE OF DECEMBER 10,' TOP SOURCE EXPLAINS... THE FINDINGS WILL COME NEARLY 3 MONTHS AFTER INVESTIGATION BEGAN... MORE...